ABSTRACT
First Published in 1989. Tackling the problem of Germany's role in the history of world politics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is one of the most interesting tasks of historiography. Furthermore, the relationship between Britain and Germany is of central significance in understanding this role.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |117 pages
The European Order between German Unification and the First World War
chapter |40 pages
Great Britain and the foundation of the German Reich
chapter |21 pages
Lord Clarendon, Bismarck and the problem of European disarmament, 1870.
Possibilities and limitations in British-Prussian relations on the eve of the Franco-Prussian War
chapter |21 pages
Between alliance and antagonism.
The problem of bilateral normality in British-German relations in the nineteenth century (1870–1914)
chapter |33 pages
The crisis of July 1914
The European security dilemma. Observations on the outbreak of the First World War
part |79 pages
The Revolution in the International Order in the Twentieth Century
chapter |29 pages
Hitler's policy towards France until 1936
chapter |20 pages
War in peace and peace in war.
On the problem of legitimacy in the history of the international order, 1931–41
part |54 pages
The Federal Republic and its Policies towards East and West
chapter |12 pages
Adenauer and Soviet Russia, 1963–7.
The foreign policy ideas of the retired Federal Chancellor
chapter |19 pages
The German Eigenweg
On the problem of normality in the modem history of Germany and Europe
